World of Warcraft still on top with 10.2M subscribers in first quarter
Activision Blizzard reported a hold-steady 10.2 million subscribers, with continued player engagement due to a recent content update and the beta of expansion Mists of Pandaria.
Didn’t get your PAX Prime tickets? Here are five alternative conventions
PAX Prime is sold out, huh? While that is very sad for a lot of us, we have some alternative conventions that may fill that social void in your schedule.
Activision Blizzard’s quarterly earnings report predicted to shine come Wednesday
Activision Blizzard will report its first-fiscal-quarter earnings on Wednesday, May 9, after the market close. This will come two days after its arch-rival Electronic Arts reports its earnings, and the two together will paint a better picture of the grudge match between EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic and Activision Blizzard's flagship online game World of Warcraft.
Max Payne 3’s massive 35GB install vs. other big games
The PC version of developer Rockstar Games' upcoming installment of the Max Payne series will take up 35GB of free space on on your hard drive when it launches on May 29, according to system requirements released today. Here's how that compares to some other big PC titles.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Runic Games presents the pets of Torchlight II (video)
Unlike Diablo III, Runic Games’ long-awaited Torchlight II still doesn’t have a release date. What is does have, however, is pets, and lots of...
At last: Diablo III debuts on May 15
Blizzard Entertainment plans to release its long-awaited Diablo III fantasy action role-playing game on May 15. It seems like this one has been in...
Diablo III drops player-versus-player
Game Director Jay Wilson announced on the official Blizzard Entertainment site that Diablo III will be shipping sans its competitive multiplayer component: As we’re...
Blizzard handing out free expansions, epic mounts, and boosts to level 80 in World of Warcraft
The Scroll of Resurrection is a special feature in World of Warcraft that grants incentives for returning players, while also benefitting the player who...